The context menu in Word, for example, has been greatly improved and lets you see changes in real time as you browse through the different options. Leaving changes aside, the truth is that Microsoft Office 2010 has pretty much the same features we already saw in the Technical Preview. If you need to test more Office apps, you can try instead. There are now multiple versions of AdventureWorks databases for each version of the product, including many updates corresponding to service pack releases. What started as a big improvement over the Northwind and Pubs sample databases has evolved into numerous specialized off-shoots highlighting different aspects of the product. Because the Books Online TSQL samples leverage this sample database, AdventureWorks has become a vital aspect of learning new features/constructs within SQL Server. The AdventureWorks database is a fictitious company database that has existed since SQL Server 2005 as a means to show new functionality in each new version released. AdventureWorks 2012 data and log file – there’s an MDF and an LDF zipped up in a file. You’ll need to drop it into a folder and tell SSMS to create a log file. AdventureWorks 2012 Data File – this is just an MDF file. Given below are the links: Adventureworks2012 data file.
Adventureworks sample database launched with SQL Server 2012 and you can download it from the codeplex. For the first copy, hereafter known as EX_AdventureWorks2012, I ran Jonathan Kehayias' script to expand the Sales.SalesOrderHeader and Sales.SalesOrderDetail tables to 1.2 million and 4.9 million rows, respectively. To look at virtual file stats, I set up two copies of the AdventureWorks2012 database, which you can download from Codeplex. Given below are the links: Adventureworks2012 data file Adventureworks2012 case sensitive date file After downloading the appropriate data.